Merced Fire Captain Bryan Akers, 45, has been with the Merced City Fire Department for 22 years. But it was during his deployment on Jan. 8 to assist with the firefighting efforts at the Hurst Fire ...

When the Mills Township Fire Department first organized in the fall of 1971, there was no fire station. Founding member Darwin O. Goodell, who was the fire chief, donated the use of a pole barn on his ...